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You only need to take a walk down a busy road or on a beach to see how much litter is scattered around.

Blogger Dominique Davis was on a Malaysian beach when she decided to do a group clean up.

After 30 minutes she and her family had managed to find over a dozen plastic bags in one small area as well as other items thrown away.

Using what she picked up, she made a sculpture of a Hawksbill Turtle – a critically endangered animal to show the cost of littering on our environment.

(Picture: Dominique Davis / @allthatisshe)

So Dominque began #projectlittercritter on Instagram, a hashtag which has seen people around the world gather rubbish and create artwork out of it.

In this way, it’s caused people to clean up their public streets, beaches, and parks.

‘Littering is a huge problem,’ Dominique told Bored Panda. ‘Not only does it threaten and cost the environment dearly, but it’s also costing us too – last year, the local authorities spent £682 million just to keep our streets clean.

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‘So I think we can all agree that as a society, we need to not only reduce the amount of waste we produce, we also need to ensure that it’s disposed of correctly.

‘We all see litter – it’s everywhere, so how can we not – but quite often we see it as someone else’s problem – we didn’t drop it, so we don’t have to pick it up.

‘But, once it’s there lying on the floor, blowing around our streets, into our forests, onto our beaches, and into our seas, it is our responsibility. It’s our planet and we should all be working together to clean it up.’

(Picture: Dominique Davis / @allthatisshe)

(Picture: Dominique Davis / @allthatisshe)

Dominque, a content creator and blogger, has so far created a dolphin, badger, fox, rabbit, and more out of the things she’s found.

Others around the world have joined in, creating octopuses, dolphins, spiders and birds.

Whether or not you make art out of it, we should all try to pick up litter. It might not be our rubbish, but it is our planet.